Swarzędz

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Field	Value
name	Swarzędz
motto	Dobrze trafiłeś / Good choice
imagesize	250px
image_flag	POL Swarzędz flag.svg
image_shield	POL Swarzędz COA.svg
image_skyline	Ratusz swarzędzki.jpg
image_caption	Town Hall in Swarzędz
pushpin_map	Poland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	Voivodeship
subdivision_name1	Greater Poland
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Poznań
subdivision_type3	Gmina
subdivision_name3	Swarzędz
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Marian Szkudlarek
established_title	Established
established_date	14th century
established_title3	Town rights
established_date3	1638
area_total_km2	8.16
population_as_of	2006
population_total	29894
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
coordinates
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	62-020
area_code	+48 61
blank_name	Car plates
blank_info	PZ
blank1_name	Climate
blank1_info	Cfb
website	http://www.swarzedz.pl
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General

The town lies directly on the route E92 and includes an aerosport facility run by the Poznań flying club, Wanda Modlibiowska. There are various companies based in the town, in particular carpentry and upholstering businesses. In addition a bicycle path from Poznań runs through the Dębiniec nature reserve and finally through the town to Pobiedziska. |Centre = Swarzędz |W = Poznań |N = Gruszczyn |NE = Gortatowo |E = Jasin |S = Zalasewo

History

The etymology of Swarzędz is often taken as a proof for the area's importance in the pre-Christian Slavic cult of Svarog.

The documentary evidence for a settlement on the site of modern-day Swarzędz comes from 1366. In 1377 there is mention of a rectory in the settlement.

Due to its advantageous location on the route from Poznań to Masovia the town developed well. The settlement was formerly in private ownership. Originally the property of the Łodzia noble family, from the 15th century it passed to the Górka noble family of Łodzia coat of arms. In 1638 the town Grzymałowo, named after the Grzymała coat of arms of its founder, voivode of Kalisz Zygmunt Grudziński, was founded at the site of the village, however, it remained known under the old name Swarzędz. The town rights were confirmed by Polish King Władysław IV Vasa. Combined Łodzia and Grzymała coats of arms are the coat of arms of Swarzędz since. Administratively it was located in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province. In the 17th century, guilds for tradesmen and craftsmen were formed. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Swarzedz_town_hall_(1909).jpg" caption="Early 20th-century view of the market square"] ::

In 1793 during the Second Partition of Poland the town of some 2,508 inhabitants was annexed by Prussia. In 1798, 448 craftsmen lived in the town. Of these, 70 were cloth makers and 36 weavers. After the successful Greater Poland uprising of 1806, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw. After the duchy's dissolution in 1815, it was re-annexed by Prussia. At the end of the 19th century carpentry flourished. In 1887 the town was connected to the railroad from Poznań to Września and thus received another important means of transport to other parts of the country, together with the road from Warsaw to Poznań. To resist Germanisation policies, the Polish population founded various organizations, including the "Sokół" Polish Gymnastic Society. In 1905 local Polish industrialist Antoni Tabaka founded a carpentry workshop. In 1906–1907 local Polish school children joined the strike against Germanisation, inspired by the Września children strike.

Poland regained independence after World War I on November 11, 1918, and two days later local Poles founded a Polish council under leadership of Tadeusz Staniewski, and began preparations to rejoin Poland. In January 1919, the first volunteers set out from Swarzędz to fight in the Greater Poland Uprising, the aim of which was to reunite the region with Poland.

During World War II, from 1939 to 1945, the town was under German occupation. Poles were subjected to expulsions, carried out in late 1939 and in 1940. The local furniture factory was seized by the occupiers and handed over to Germans, while its owner was expelled to Warsaw, and later also imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died of exhaustion in 1945. Stanisław Kwaśniewski, commander of the 1919 Swarzędz insurgent unit, was killed by the Germans in Fort VII. From 1941 to 1943 a Nazi German labour camp for Jews was located in the town.

From 1975 to 1998, it was administratively located in the Poznań Voivodeship. In 1988 Swarzędz was awarded with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland's highest state orders.

Places of interest

There is an open-air museum (the Professor Ryszard Kostecki museum) relating to beekeeping across Europe, one of the branches of the National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa.
In the neighbouring town of Uzarzewo there is a park from the 19th century with a farmstead constructed between 1860 and 1865. There is a Hunting Museum there.
In the village of Wierzenica there is a wooden church, St. Nikolaus, dating from the second half of the 16th century. At the church is the grave of August Cieszkowski (1814–1894). Near the village there is a graveyard with graves dating back to the Bronze Age.
The church of St. Martin in Swarzędz (18th century).
Church of the Archangel Michael in Uzarzewo.

Transport

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There is a railway station in Swarzędz. The town has railway connections with major Polish cities such as Poznań, Warsaw, Łódź and Szczecin.

Sports

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The local football club is . It competes in the lower leagues.

Notable residents

Aleksander Doba (born 1946), Polish kayaker, 2014 Adventurer of the Year
Andrzej Fischer (1952–2018), Polish footballer
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937), German general
Paulina Wilkońska (1815–1875), Polish novelist
Philipp Jaffé (1819–1870), German historian
Robert Siewert (1887–1973), German politician
Siegfried Placzek (1866–1946), American neurologist and psychiatrist
Simon Baruch (1840–1921), American physician
Zenon Baranowski (1930–1980), Polish Olympic athlete
(1881–1945), Polish industrialist

References

Arkadiusz Małyszka, ''Zmiana granic Swarzędza w czasach sprawowania urzędu burmistrza przez Tadeusza Staniewskiego (1934 rok)'', "Tadeusz Staniewski 1873–1940", Swarzędz, 2010, p. 25 (in Polish)
Aurelia Szafran-Bartoszek, ''Biografia Tadeusza Staniewskiego'', "Tadeusz Staniewski 1873–1940", Swarzędz, 2010, p. 10 (in Polish)
[http://bip.swarzedz.eu/fileadmin/BIP/Prawo/Uchwaly/2016/203_2016.Kopia.pdf ''Uchwała nr XIX/203/2016 Rady Miejskiej w Swarzędzu z dnia 23 lutego 2016 r. w sprawie: nadania nazwy ulicy na terenie miasta Swarzędz'' (in Polish)]
Szafran-Bartoszek, p. 11
The town was soon successfully restored to Poland. In the interbellum the workshop of Antoni Tabaka grew into a large furniture factory, the first mechanized furniture factory in Poland, and its products enjoyed great popularity also abroad. In 1934 town limits were expanded.Małyszka, p. 31-32
Maria Wardzyńska, ''Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej z okupowanych ziem polskich włączonych do III Rzeszy w latach 1939-1945'', [[Institute of National Remembrance. IPN]], Warszawa, 2017, p. 151, 192 (in Polish)
Tadeusz Staniewski, mayor of Swarzędz, was imprisoned and tortured by the Germans in the infamous [[Fort VII]] in Poznań and afterwards deported to the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], where he was killed in August 1940.Szafran-Bartoszek, p. 15
Szafran-Bartoszek, p. 15-16
(1988). "Uchwała Rady Państwa z dnia 29 czerwca 1988 r. w sprawie nadania orderów społecznym zbiorowościom.".

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